Question 1

Does GutSync replace my GI doctor?

Accepted Answer

No. It's the diary your GI wishes you'd kept. GutSync brings structured data to your appointments (Bristol distribution, trigger correlations, context overlays), but it doesn't diagnose, prescribe, or replace clinical care.

Question 2

Will it work for IBD, GERD, SIBO, or celiac?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Bristol-scale tracking, trigger tagging, and life-context overlays apply across IBS, IBD (Crohn's and UC), GERD, SIBO, celiac, and undiagnosed sensitivities. The patterns it surfaces are the patterns specialists already use to make decisions.

Question 3

How is this different from Cara Care, Fig, or mySymptoms?

Accepted Answer

Other apps make you fill out forms and read your own charts. GutSync lets you talk or type in plain language, parses every entry into structured data automatically, and correlates patterns across food, symptoms, bowel movements, sleep, mood, medications, and life context. It also remembers what you've already told it, so the answers get sharper the longer you stay.

Question 4

What's a case, and do I have to follow a strict diet?

Accepted Answer

A case is a standing experiment on one suspect, and no: the diet part is optional. Run it as a challenge case and GutSync guides a real elimination-and-challenge protocol (cut it for about two weeks, bring it back deliberately, compare both stretches against your own baseline — the same n-of-1 design clinicians use). Or run it observational and change nothing at all: the case scores the contrast already in your normal weeks. Either way it runs on autopilot off the logging you already do, counts honest evidence only (washouts and thin days don't score), and closes with a verdict: confirmed, cleared, or an honest inconclusive. Slips aren't failures; a slip day is simply set aside. Medication cases always run observational: GutSync never tells you to stop or change a prescription.

Question 5

How long until I see useful patterns?

Accepted Answer

Most people see their first useful pattern read at ~7 days. More stable reads on dairy, gluten, and timing often take around 30 days. The longer you log, the sharper and more personalized the read gets.

Question 6

Can I export my data to my doctor?

Accepted Answer

One tap. The PDF report is built for GI specialists: chronological entries, Bristol distribution, trigger correlations, active life contexts. Read it like a chart, hand it to your doctor before the appointment.

Question 7

Is my health data private, and what happens if I cancel?

Accepted Answer

Your timeline is yours. We don't sell it, share it, or use it to train external models. Export everything at any time. Cancel anytime and delete your account in one place. That wipes your timeline, your memories, and every trace the AI kept. No retention period. No asterisk.

Question 8

How much does GutSync cost, and is there a free trial?

Accepted Answer

Every account starts with 7 days of full Pro, free, no credit card. After that there are two plans: Basic covers effortless logging (web and Telegram) plus answers about your recent history; Pro adds the trigger engine, cases with verdicts, compounding memory, and the clinician export. Either plan bills monthly or annually (annual works out to about two months free) and costs less than a typical GI copay. Cancel anytime. Live prices: https://gutsync.com/#pricing

Question 9

Why is this paid?

Accepted Answer

AI inference costs real money on every entry, and we pay for it so your data doesn't. Selling your timeline, training third-party models on it, or showing you ads would all be cheaper for us and worse for you. A subscription keeps the incentives aligned: we win when the product gets sharper, not when your attention does.

Question 10

Voice or typing, what actually works?

Accepted Answer

Both. The same model parses “sourdough sandwich for lunch, kinda heavy after” whether you said it or typed it. Voice tends to win on the way to work; typing wins late at night. Pick whichever lets you log without breaking your day.

Question 11

Why does this stick when other food diaries don't?

Accepted Answer

Manual food logging breaks because it asks too much, every day. Forms, portions, ingredient lists, all from scratch. GutSync removes the typing ceiling: talk, type, or snap a photo and the AI builds the structured entry. The friction goes from “fill out this form” to “say one sentence,” which is the difference between a diary that reaches week 4 and one that doesn't.

Question 12

Can I log by texting GutSync?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and it's the whole idea. Connect Telegram and message the GutSync bot the way you'd text a friend: describe a meal, send a photo, or note a symptom, and it logs a structured entry for you, even when the web app is closed. Telegram is live today, with WhatsApp, Messenger, and Signal on the way. No new app to open.

Question 13

Is there a GutSync mobile app?

Accepted Answer

No, and that's intentional. GutSync has no mobile app, and any app in the App Store or Google Play calling itself “GutSync” is not us. Rather than add one more icon to your home screen, GutSync meets you where you already talk: message the GutSync bot to log. Telegram is live today, with WhatsApp, Messenger, and Signal on the way. In the AI age, opening a dedicated app to track your gut shouldn't be the price of entry. App fatigue is real, and a native app isn't on our horizon.

Capability	Paper diary	Cara Care	Fig / mySymptoms	GutSync
Entry style	Pen and paper	Forms	Forms + barcode	Talk, type, or snap a photo
Photo logging	—	—	—	Snap a meal. AI reads every item to your catalog
What it tracks	Food only	Food + symptoms	Food, FODMAP, symptoms	Food, symptoms, BMs, sleep, mood, meds, life context
Pattern finding	You do it	Basic charts	Charts + FODMAP overlay	AI correlates across every dimension
Proving a trigger	Trial and error	Preset diet plans	Manual elimination diets	Cases: trigger trials on autopilot that end in a verdict
Memory of you	—	—	—	Remembers your priorities, open cases, history
GI-visit export	Photo of notebook	Limited	CSV / PDF	Bristol-aware PDF with context overlays
Conversational interface	—	—	—	Chat with your timeline
Log on the go	—	App only	App only	Live: text it from Telegram, more coming
Barcode scanning	—	—	Yes	On the roadmap

Find your gut triggers.
In days, not years.

The problem isn't you. It's the diary.

Log it in one sentence. Or one photo.

It actually reads your timeline.

No app to open. Text the bot.

It doesn't guess your triggers. It measures them.

Open a case. It stays open until the answer is earned.

Name your suspect

It runs itself

The verdict lands

Challenge protocol

Observational

Generic on Day 7. Specific on Day 60.

Six layers of context. One sharper answer.

The "right now" layer of memory.

Same question. Sharper answer.

One tap. A diary your GI actually wants.

Built differently from every other gut diary.

From the people whose food is the variable.

Why GutSync exists.

Encrypted. Never trained on. Yours to take.

Unreachable without you

Never trained on your data

Doctor-ready PDF export

Delete everything in one click

Fair questions. Straight answers.

Less than a GI copay. Cheaper than guessing.

Bring your next GI appointment
the answers it deserves.

Find your gut triggers.In days, not years.